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Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;

Inventors:

Olivier Gaste, Chatillon, FR;

Hervé Marchand, Chatillon, FR;

Assignee:

ORANGE, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 43/0888 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/602 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for managing progressive and adaptive streaming of digital content within a multimedia stream player terminal connected to a communication network, the digital content being associated with a description file of the digital content, which includes a list of time segments of the content each associated with several encoding bit rates or qualities of the content. The method implements: obtaining a connection speed to the communication network determined from a size and a streaming time of at least one already streamed time segment, and selecting, for at least one subsequent time segment to be streamed, a maximum quality of the content, depending on the connection speed and a ratio, called a gain factor, between an actual encoding bit rate of the already streamed time segment and the quality associated with the time segment in the description file.


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